Hey guys, normally I'm pretty well versed in the lore of Fallout and the canon... but I have a question. If in New Vegas, the existence of the events in fallout three are ignored, what does that mean for the Enclave as well as the Brotherhood? If the purifier was never activated, and none of that ever happened, then doesn't that mean that the Enclave still have Adams Air force Base, as well as Raven Rock? With the Brotherhood, they haven't eliminated the mutant threat, or become filled in a major role like after the purifier was activated... so doesn't that leave a whole bunch of uh... well... possibilities? I guess you could say, to develop on them later on in the series? I'm not saying I'd like them to, or that they should, but it kind of leaves a hole in the story. Thoughts, opinions, comments, hate mail, feel free to post it all here! lol

Erm... No, those events did happen. It's just that Capital Wasteland's events is on the other side of an entire continent and they don't exactly have any international news to inform the west of the events.
Just like the east had no idea that Navarro has been shot to hell which makes ED-E's travel quite pointless.

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What exactly made you think that the events of Fallout 3 never happened?

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I'm not sure if you are talking about a hypothetical senario...but.

The events of Fallout 3 are certainly canon. They can't just really be "ignored" (unless Bethesda were to give the say-so).

I remember reading somewhere that for Fallout New Vegas, the events in fallout three were being completely disregarded.

What they meant was, that New Vegas wasn't going to be a sequel to Fallout 3.

It would have it's own storyline that essentially had nothing to do with what happened in 3.

New Vegas wraps up loose ends, when it comes to the Enclave from Fallout 2. It even adds to events from Fallout 3. Ed-E's story being the best example.

New Vegas takes place only a couple years after Fallout 3 and over 3000 miles away. So news from Fallout 3 would not make it to the Mojave Area. Ed-E being the only exception, but he left before the Events of Fallout 3.

And the wasteland survival guide. That is the only other thing I would assume be canon is the Lone Wanderer made an excelent wasteland survival guide and that is why a couple people took it with them.

That could also be put down to, the devs just using it because they need a skill magazine for Survival Skill.

They could have always made some silly magazine. It sort of works both ways though.

To me it was an oversite. They were pressed for time, put it in there as a place holder for the Survival Skill magazine, and never got around to replacing it.

Of course that's just my opinion as to why its in New Vegas.

I think its just an Easter egg, since its a unique skill magazine.

I just honestly doubt that Moria actually made her book, that it helped really anyone, and that it somehow made it to the Mojave. Of course stranger things have happened, after all Jet is in the DC area.

I think it's meant more as an easter egg.

Either way the events of Fallout 3 have no bearing on what happens in New Vegas, that doesn't mean they didn't happen.